FPS - Again

[Scorpiоn]

I think the forums got hungry again, so I'll try, erm... again.

With all settings on max (weather to "cold fronts"), flying around KIAH in the default Cessna 172, I get a minimum of about 7 FPS, what can I do to improve this?  This is using the Skorpion set-up (check signature).

[Skittles]

My best advice? If you can afford to spend about $75 and 3-5 hours, contact www.FS-GS.com

Best thing I ever did.

[JBaymore]

Scorpion,

For me, the 64 M Ti video card stands out like a sore thumb for running fs2004.

Before you do much of anything...... plan on getting a fast 128M current technology video card.  That should make a good start.  Look in the "hardware" forum for the recent threads that have benchmark graphs from Tom's to compare general card characteristics.... and look for your current one to get a comparison.

Get the most video card you can afford.  I don;t think therer is a card available yet that is "too good" for running fs2004.

Even with my setup (see below)...... I'm not happy with frame rates in most "short final" situations.  FS2004 is a very demanding program.

To put my comments in perspective..... I have this "aversion" to turning off advertised features and improvements in a program I have bought just to make it run acceptably  ;).

My $0.02 worth.


best,

...................john

[Scorpiоn]

Drats...

I was afraid of it being the graphics card, I had an inkling.... To the hardware forums we go...

[Gixer]

Its the whole system.  Yes my new gen card has made a difference (Big difference) I previously had a GF4 ti4600.  Trust me if you get a new gen card u will notice a big difference.  Yes my FPS still drop on short final but to about 18-20 and even at this the game still looks smooth to me, though others might find it not smooth depends how good your eyes are  ;)

I have everything maxxed except for AI which is at 75% and 3d cloud coverage to medium and the sight distances half way.  I cant really notice much difference in this setting to the clouds being maxxed so it is a happy medium for me.  

Thing is you need the best of everything for FS2004.  It uses 100% cpu power and munches up ram too.  When playing FS2004 I am using about 600meg ram (I have 1gig) though what is strange is some of my page space is still being used even though I have free ram.

On another note all my other games I play, COD, Joint Operations, CFS3, MOH, and others all I can say is WOW.  Im playing all of em at 1600x1200  ;D  smoooooooth as  ;D  Screenies just dont do it justice the IQ on the screen is amazing  ;D